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React Native RadioRNR 238 - Accessibility in React Native with Lizzi LindboeLizzi Lindboe joins Robin, Mazen, and Jamon aka Barry White to talk about accessibility in React Native!This episode brought to you by Infinite Red! Infinite Red is a premier React Native design and development agency located in the USA. With five years of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter), Infinite Red is the best choice for your next React Native app.Helpful Links:React Native accessibility docsAccessibilityInfoWhen to use accessibility labelsJen Luker's 2018 Chain React talk, "How to be a...
2022-06-1031 min
Software Developers Journey#102 Jen Luker is a relentless accessibility advocateJen took us to the beginning of her STEM journey, with the goal to walk the footsteps of Ayanna Howard, but life wanted otherwise. Nevertheless, she found her way to coding. We nostalgically talked about dev-jobs in the 90s and early 2000s. We spoke about web development, accessibility and advocacy.Here are the links of the show:https://www.twitter.com/knitcodemonkeyhttps://www.deque.com/axe/axe-for-webTalk from Marcy Sutton - Where in the Stack is Carmen Sanfrancisco?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxsUsgBYCIcAyanna Howard: https://howard.ece.gatech.eduCredits
2020-05-2646 min
Chats with Kent C. DoddsJen Luker Chats With Kent About Finding Inspiration From AnywhereJen puts knitting before the fact that she is a senior software engineer when she defines who she is; this doesn't make her a worse engineer than someone who eats, sleeps, and breathes code.With each new thing you learn, whether you're good or bad at it, you'll tend to discover something about it that teaches you something new. With everything Jen learns, she tries to bring it back into the ways she interacts with the world, whether that's through some art medium or programming.Technological progress has been an evolving process of standing on...
2019-11-2728 min
BookBytesBookBytes 19: The Imposter's Handbook: Author - Rob ConeryWe talk with Rob about his book, how and why he wrote it, as well as the next book that's coming out.Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (book)
Eighth Grade (movie)
Claude Shannon
React Podcast 34: Just Use a Button with Jen Luker
Thing Explainer (book)
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age (book)
This Developer's Life (podcast)
Michael Crichton
A Curious Moon (book)
Enceladus (moon of Saturn)
Big Machine
2019-01-2150 min
React Podcast34: Just Use a Button with Jen LukerJen Luker is a lead software engineer at Formidable Labs, keynote speaker, host of @BookBytesFM, and expert knitter. Chantastic asks her about the Fiber Arts Corner at React Conf, the history that textiles and programming share, and how we can make our apps more accessible.
Featuring
Jen Luker — Twitter, Github, Website
Michael Chan — Twitter, Github, Website
Links
Fiber Arts Circle on Periscope
Jacquard loom on Wikipedia
99% Invisible Podcast Kids: Articles of Interest #1 — discussing Jacquard Loom and connection to software)
Knitting Is Coding | Lindiwe Matlali | TEDxBeaconStreet
Accessibility: Beyond the Basics — Jen's talk on accessibility
Chain React 20...
2019-01-0900 min
devpath.fmAccessibility Guru and Engineering Manager Jen LukerJen Luker is a JavaScript developer turned manager. She is an expert on tech accessibility. During our talk, we touch on topics ranging from semantic HTML to sexism, Jen has had an incredible journey and I'm humbled to have had the opportunity to record it.
Jen's internet home: https://www.jenluker.com
2018-12-3035 min
Web RushEpisode 11: Web Accessibility with Jen LukerRecording date: 2018-11-13
John Papa https://twitter.com/john_papa
Ward Bell https://twitter.com/wardbell
Dan Wahlin https://twitter.com/danwahlin
Jen Luker https://twitter.com/knitcodemonkey
Resources:
section 508 https://webaim.org/standards/508/checklist
The a11y project https://a11yproject.com/
Jaws https://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness/JAWS
ARIA https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA
The https://www.starbucks.com/careers/ Starbucks career site
WCAG https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
Jen helped author https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y
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2018-12-1147 min
Web of TomorrowWeb of Tomorrow 49: Jen Luker - Accessibility (a11y)Jens shares what accessibility is, why it's important for everyone, and how it can increase your business revenue.
JAWS Screen Reader
Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools
axe: the Accessibility Engine from Deque
ELIA
Menu Concepts
Accessibility on MDN
WAI-ARIA
Footnotes
There actually is some caption access in movie theaters
2018-08-2749 min
egghead.io developer chatsJen Luker, a11y championJen Luker is a software engineer at Formidable Labs Inc. She has worked as a full-stack developer using PHP, Javascript, and CSS, but has a particular fondness for frontend technologies.Today, we discuss the issue of accessibility and how focusing on making websites and software more accessible should be a constant consideration, particularly since it taps into an underserved market. Tune in to hear on discussion on this vital and fascinating topic.Transcript"Jen Luker, a11y champion" TranscriptTopics:The Internet and accessibilityHow loading times affect accessibilityHow accessibility helps...
2018-08-2227 min